Center For Healing Childhood Trauma

Have you ever felt manipulated or tricked by your child? Do you feel like you have lost control? Are you concerned that your child or student is lying awake at night planning ways to drive you crazy during the day? As a child with an attachment disorder grows older, finding ways to demonstrate, and initiate, that they are in control dominates their daily experience. Even the slightest doubt can cause them to steal, lie, and purposely act out to upset others and regain control. When put into a safe situation where adults want to nurture and care for them, they feel uncomfortable, and resist giving up control. The last time they were not in control (as infants), they almost died, so it makes sense that they have learned skills to help them survive. But this makes them VERY challenging to build a relationship with, or to parent them. This class will unpack attachment disorders and provide ways to help adults become loving leaders, and empathetic adults, who provide tight structure and firm limit setting.